youtube-dl.exe: error: no such option: --audio-format mp3 when executing with Java ProcessBuilder

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

Usage: youtube-dl.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl.exe: error: no such option: --audio-format mp3

Note :This is output from stderr, there is no output from stdout. I am running this from within a ProcessBuilder. It is run with this command array:

[youtube-dl.exe, -x, -v, --audio-format "mp3", -i, -o audio\107437558354423808\xoP9OQxSd9c.%(ext)s, --geo-bypass, --no-progress, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoP9OQxSd9c]

Running the command manually from the command line works fine! If we remove the double quotes around mp3 or add more the exact same thing happens, except there will be (amount of double quotes - 1) double quotes around the mp3 in the log.

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I am running this from within a Java program using a ProcessBuilder. It looks like this:

List<String> command = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("youtube-dl.exe", "-x", "--audio-format \"mp3\"", "-i", "-o text.%(ext)s", "--geo-bypass", "--no-progress", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoP9OQxSd9c"));

Process youtubedl;
try {
    System.out.println("Starting youtube-dl to get file with command: " + command);
    youtubedl = new ProcessBuilder(command).start();
} catch (IOException e) {
    System.out.println("Failed to start youtube-dl! Stacktrace: ");
    e.printStackTrace();
}

BufferedReader commandOutput = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(youtubedl.getInputStream()));
BufferedReader commandError = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(youtubedl.getErrorStream()));

try {
    String currentLine;
    System.out.println("--------------youtube-dl output: ");
    while ((currentLine = commandOutput.readLine()) != null) {
        System.out.println(currentLine);
    }
    System.out.println("--------------youtube-dl output finished");
    System.out.println("--------------youtube-dl error: ");
    while ((currentLine = commandError.readLine()) != null) {
        System.out.println(currentLine);
    }
    System.out.println("--------------youtube-dl error finished");
} catch (IOException e) {
    System.out.println("Could not read youtube-dl output! Stacktrace: ");
    e.printStackTrace();
}

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List command = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("youtube-dl.exe", "-x", "--audio-format", "mp3", "-i", "-o", "text.%(ext)s", "--geo-bypass", "--no-progress", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoP9OQxSd9c"));

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